Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

heterogeneity in peer effects with respect to personality. The results indicate that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are …Social interactions are widely recognized to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … uptake of smoking. We exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health data, and extend the Spatial …

Social interactions are widely recognized to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … better able to resist peer pressure in the uptake of smoking. We exploit detailed friendship nominations in the US Add Health …) unobserved contextual effects, in order to identify heterogeneity in peer effects with respect to personality. The results …

Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking …

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level … establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes, and how this differs by personality. We measure personality using the Big … point reduction in the probability of smoking after the ban. Notably, this is the only Big Five personality trait that …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of smoking on body weight using data from the Lung Health Study, a … randomized trial of smoking cessation treatments. We find evidence that quitting smoking leads to an average long-run weight gain … of around 11-12 pounds, and that the drop in smoking in recent decades explains 14% of the concurrent rise in obesity …

In this paper, I use a social interactions framework to detect whether individual smoking decisions are influenced by … classmate smoking decisions. There are several large challenges in addressing this question, including the endogeneity of school … that the current results suggest smaller social interactions in adolescent smoking decisions than some previous work …